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Ho Pui-yin, Water for a Barren Rock. 150 Years of Water Supply in Hong Kong

Even for the tourist that I was at the beginning of the 1960s, it has bee hard to forget the severe restrictions that lay heavy…

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Wang Xiaobo, L’Age d’or

Here is another story, but different, of the educated young being sent to the frontier provinces to be educated/reformed among the poor and medium lower…

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James C. Hsiung ed., Hong Kong the Super Paradox: Life After Return to China

This is a collection of 13 essays about various aspects of life in Hong Kong after its reversion to China in July 1997. As common…

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David Wen-wei Chang and Richard Y. Chuang, The Politics of Hong Kong’s Reversion to China

The Politics of Hong Kong’s Reversion to China is a book completed in 1996, one year before the reversion of Hong Kong to China in…

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Bruce Gilley, Model Rebels. The Rise and Fall of China’s Richest Village

One of the most remarkable aspects of the reforms in China over the last twenty years has been the enormous variation that they have produced…

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Joseph A. Camilleri, The Political Economy of the Asia-Pacific Region—States, Markets and Civil Society in Asia Pacific

The political scientist Joseph Camilleri is the author of many publications on the transformation of both the state and the international system in the Far…

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Thomas Heberer, Xiaoming Ji and Arno Kohl, Unternehmer als strategische Gruppen: Zur sozialen und politischen Funktion von Unternehmern in China und Vietnam

Economic reforms in China and Vietnam and the drive for a “socialist market-economy” have resulted in, an in-turn been driven even further by a growing…

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Christine Chaigne, Catherine Paix and Chantal Zheng eds., Taiwan: enquête sur une identité

This is a work that in a timely way fills a gaping hole, at least in French. It is true that Taiwan’s contemporary political realities…

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Edward Friedman and Barrett L. McCormick eds., What if China Doesn’t Democratize? Implications for War and Peace

This is a book that abounds in information on, and analyses of an important subject. The basic question it sets out to answer is how…

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Susan H. Whiting, Power and Wealth in Rural China. The Political Economy of Institutional Change

This fine book goes back over an important subject (the role played by rural industry in the extraordinary economic development of the past two decades…

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